History, Politics And Current Affairs

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2026 8:15 pm

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2026 8:02 pm I did earlier see a post on facebook with the 4 women from the Ghostbusters remake as SG-1 characters.....glad I cant find it again.......

Someone on this board must have access to brain bleach, please share where you got it.

Sorry, looked again but cannot find it.....fortunately.

I did earlier see a post on facebook with the 4 women from the Ghostbusters remake as SG-1 characters.....glad I cant find it again.......

Interesting, particularly the bit about the Germans having a good idea what the weather was going to be like.

The article calls Krick dislike while the wiki on the film calls him charismatic....

Annoyingly, looks like we have to wait until September this side of the pond for the film.

From the daily mail https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-15851613/american-uk-heatwave.html Americans living in the UK 'humbled' as they brave British heatwave without air conditioning - fleeing stuffy flats for hotel rooms and buying bags of ice Americans who are used to handling 35C degree ...

And the express does it again...though this is exact date rather than the usual exact hour they usually use. https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/2210557/uk-weather-maps-exact-date-rain-bomb UK weather maps show exact date 358-mile rain bomb will hit Britain - 69 areas affected The UK will be hit ...

Now we are getting the warnings to turn off gas, electricty etc...via the Express....who regularly tell you the exact time a major weather event will hit yiour area. Households in 42 UK areas are being urged to prepare to turn off their gas, water and electricity as "intense" thunderstorms...

We had out annual Steam Ralley here over the Bank Holiday weeked.

Traditionally its rained for it but this weekend was dry and hot for them.

Cdr Salamander posted this as part of an article on DDG(X)


https://substack.com/home/post/p-198343447

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-interplanetary-shortcut-mars.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter Whether it's robotic rovers heading to Mars or, one day, a crew of astronauts, a round-trip journey is an incredibly long one. But there may be a way to find a sh...

Just curios, what was the usual incident rate for fires on board ship as it seems the USS Higgins, experienced an onboard fire while operating in the Indo-Pacific earlier this week, according to a Defense Department official cited by CBS News.

From the telegraph It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting oil and gas by cracking underground rocks – is about to stage a comeback. Not, however, under its old name. The F-word, as some refer to it, is banned. The ...

So wildly spin around a bit then blow up and cause confusion is a possibility.....though who you confuse is debatable

I hadn't thought about wildly flying through the air....that would really cause confusion.

Picked this up from the Secret Projects website, fairly old original posting.....I think its more likely to spin around a bit and blow up.....which is i suppose possibly useful. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/really-old-secret-projects-1800s-and-earlier.24593/page-2#post-902133 https://war...

No-one seems to be saying much about the $17 billion cost..... Designed to make a small number of people very rich? Or am I just a bit too cynical? Looks like the BBG is sucking the funding out of both of those programs AND carriers. Question, could a future Congress revoke funding for the BBG(X) a...

Doesn't look anything like a Tico replacement in the current plan.

https://x.com/supbrow/status/2046675202 ... dium=email

No-one seems to be saying much about the $17 billion cost.....

https://news.usni.org/2026/04/21/navy-wants-to-buy-trump-class-battleship-in-fy-2028 Navy Wants to Buy $17B Trump-class Battleship in FY 2028 THE PENTAGON – The Navy wants to buy the first Trump-class battleship in next year’s budget submission, a schedule that would allow the service to make the pu...

From one of the Discworld facebook sites

Chuck Norris is the only person Death has spoken to in lower case letters.

A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth… Deliberately or by accident? :D By accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello...